George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
struggle reflection men
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
wine imagination house
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
prayer heart heaven
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
talking tiptoes poetry-is
Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
done enjoy immense
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
horse heart long
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
christian boys atheism
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
army law track
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
valentine thorns paws
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
stars sunset night
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
flower broken necks
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
pleasure endure observation
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
stars tired dark
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
country fighting men
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.